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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas

Preface to the Electronic Edition

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I. The history of ideas about the external order of nature studied by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.

II. The history of ideas about human nature in anthropology, psychology, religion, and philosophy as well as in literature and common sense.

III. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism.

IV. The history of ideas about or attitudes to history, historiography, and historical criticism.

V. The historical development of economic, legal, and political ideas and institutions, ideologies, and movements.

VI. The history of religious and philosophical ideas.

VII. The history of formal mathematical, logical, linguistic, and methodological ideas.

LIST OF ARTICLES

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

NOTE TO THE READER

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ABSTRACTION IN THE FORMATION OF CONCEPTS

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ACADEMIC FREEDOM

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ALIENATION IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

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ALIENATION IN HEGELAND MARX

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ALLEGORY INLITERARY HISTORY

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AMBIGUITY ASAESTHETIC PRINCIPLE

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ANALOGY INEARLY GREEK THOUGHT

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ANALOGY IN PATRISTICAND MEDIEVAL THOUGHT

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ANALOGY OF THEBODY POLITIC

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ANCIENTS AND MODERNS INTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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ANTHROPOMORPHISMIN SCIENCE

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ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON

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APPEARANCE AND REALITY

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ART FOR ART'S SAKE

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ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

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ATOMISM: ANTIQUITY TO THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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ATOMISM IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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BALANCE OF POWER

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BAROQUE IN LITERATURE

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THEORIES OF BEAUTY TOTHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

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THEORIES OF BEAUTY SINCETHE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

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BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONSIN ANTIQUITY

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BIOLOGICAL HOMOLOGIESAND ANALOGIES

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BIOLOGICAL MODELS

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CAUSATION IN HISTORY

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CAUSATION INISLAMIC THOUGHT

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CAUSATION IN LAW

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CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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CAUSATION IN THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY, FINAL CAUSES

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CERTAINTY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT

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CERTAINTY SINCE THESEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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CHINA IN WESTERN THOUGHTAND CULTURE

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CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY

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CHURCH AS ANINSTITUTION

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MODERNISM IN THECHRISTIAN CHURCH

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE

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CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS

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CLASSIFICATION OFTHE SCIENCES

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SENSE OF THE COMIC

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CONSERVATION OFNATURAL RESOURCES

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CONSTITUTIONALISM

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CONTINUITY ANDDISCONTINUITY IN NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE

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COSMOLOGY FROMANTIQUITY TO 1850

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COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850

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CREATION IN RELIGION

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CREATIVITY IN ART

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CRISIS IN HISTORY

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTIN ANTIQUITY

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CULTURE AND CIVILIZATIONIN MODERN TIMES

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DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

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DESIGN ARGUMENT

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VI. The history of religious and philosophical ideas.

Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts	Cynicism
Agnosticism	Death and Immortality
Alienation in Christian Theology	Deism
Analogy in Early Creek Thought	Design Argument
Analogy in Patristic and Medieval Thought	Determinism in Theology: Predestination
Antinomy of Pure Reason	Double Truth
Appearance and Reality	Dualism in Philosophy and Religion
Baconianism	Epicureanism and Free Will
Buddhism	Eschatology
Causation in the Seventeenth Century	Problem of Evil
Causation in the Seventeenth Century, Final Causes	Existentialism
Certainty in Seventeenth-Century Thought	Faith, Hope, and Charity
Certainty since the Seventeenth Century	Free Will and Determinism
Chain of Being	Free Will in Theology
Christianity in History	Gnosticism
Church as an Institution	Idea of God from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Modernism in the Christian Church	Idea of God, 1400-1800
Cosmic Fall	Idea of God since 1S00
Creation in Religion	Happiness and Pleasure

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Hegelian Political and Religious Ideas	Positivism in Latin America
Heresy in the Middle Ages	Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiricism)
Heresy, Renaissance and Later	Pragmatism
Hermeticism	Prophecy in Hebrew Scripture
Hierarchy and Order	Prophecy in the Middle Ages
Holy (The Sacred)	Pythagorean Doctrines to 300 B.C.
Idea	Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe
Ideal in Philosophy from the Renaissance to 1780	Ramism
Impiety in the Classical World	Rationality among the Greeks and Romans
Irrationalism in the History of Philosophy	Reformation
Islamic Conception of Intellectual Life	Relativism in Ethics
Macrocosm and Microcosm	Origins of Religion
Metaphor in Philosophy	Ritual in Religion
Metaphor in Religious Discourse	Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century
Metaphysical Imagination	Religious Enlightenment in American Thought Moral Sense
Religious Toleration	Necessity
Right and Good	Neo-Platonism
Romanticism in Post-Kantian Philosophy Ethics of Peace	Sin and Salvation
Perennial Philosophy	Skepticism in Antiquity
Perfectibility of Man	Skepticism in Modern Thought
Pietism	Ethics of Stoicism
Platonism in Philosophy and Poetry
Platonism in the Renaissance	Theodicy
Platonism since the Enlightenment	Time
Positivism in Europe to 1900	Utilitarianism